It was a warm night, and half a dozen loafers were seated on empty beer-kegs in front of Levison's door when Parker rode up.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
Mr. Pope's father, that was agent to th' old Duke, used to employ my father regular on this business, knowing him for a silent man, and one to be trusted; and my father had made a very pretty catchet some way back-along in the cave, big enough to hold two score of kegs, and well above reach of the sea-water.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Well, my father had finished his job that day in a sweatin' hurry, the tide bein' nearabouts on the top of the flood, and at the end, all the kegs bein' stowed, he spiled one 'for the good of the house,' as he put it, and drew off a tot in a tin panikin he kept handy.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch